been mediated by qatar, 13 israeli hostages are due to be released later today, with 50 being released over the four days. as part of the agreement, israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners. sir stephen o brien is a former un under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. hejoins me now. tell us what has been happening at the border and how difficult it is been for some of these eight trucks to get through. how long they have been there, how long the jets were. you are in a hot part of the world so it has been a long, arduous time for people to be waiting but there has been plenty of time for assessments by the professionals, not least for the unh wr, to which i used to run, which has been really active in making sure there is a real assessment for the people, particularly in south casa, where they have been gathering to have the humanitarian supplies distributed to them to help them survive and maintain some kind of ability to give th
mckay: this is happening now, if you can possibly believe that. the terrorists are saying theyey ll blow up p the schoo, killing all the children inside. the german police haveve been wawaging a relelentless wawr against the terrorists, capturing some, killing some. man: the british army are the terrorists. francis: no one, even the most powerful, has immunity from these urban guerillas. brinkley: there are 298 people held hostage. those people, they have good ideals, they re just going about them the wrong way. we are ready to go on until martyrdom. mckay: the communiqué ended with the appeal,l, revolutionaries of the world, unite. [ indiststinct shoututing ] [ sirens wail ] terrorist attacks, especially where hostages are taken, have become increasingly common. there have been bombings, shootings, and strikes in northern ireland. arab guerillas fired at an israeli school bus near the lebanese border. the 1970s saw the development of the terrorist repertoire. cronkikite:
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Movie poster of Charles Bronson in “Raid on Entebbe”
This would be the first visit by an Israeli prime minister to Sub-Saharan Africa since Yitzhak Shamir visited four West African states in 1987.
This visit is personal for Netanyahu, because forty years before on June 27, 1976, Air France flight 139 bound for Paris from Tel Aviv was hijacked in Athens by Palestinian and German terrorists and diverted to Entebbe International Airport in the name of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
“I intend to do so around the 40th anniversary of the raid at Entebbe that was for us a very dramatic national experience. For me, obviously, one of great personal consequence,” he said on confirming his invitation by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta who was recently in Israel.
First Black Bond villain and Alien actor, Yaphet Kotto dies at 81
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Actor Yaphet Kotto, who rose to fame in the 1970s fighting James Bond in
Live and Let Die and an extraterrestrial stowaway in
Alien, has died, his agent told AFP. He was 81.
In a statement Monday on Facebook, wife Sinahon Thessa described her late husband as a legend . You played a villain on some of your movies but for me you re a real hero and to a lot of people also, she said.
Agent Ryan Goldhar confirmed his passing in an email to AFP. He did not share the cause of death.